Monday, January 2, 2012

Charlotte band signs with major label

Charlotte-based band Matrimony announced Thursday at its concert at Visulite Theatre that the group recently signed with Columbia Records. Its co-founder Jimmy Brown confirmed the news last week via email.

"We signed to Columbia last week," he reports. The label has not yet made a formal announcement. Brown says the group, which includes his wife Ashlee Hardee Brown, will take the next five months to work on its major label debut. He predicts a late Spring/early summer release.

Matrimony's 2010 EP "The Storm & The Eye" received critical praise and the band has become a local favorite. While based in folk and Americana, it goes for a anthemic big band sound reminiscent of another ensemble led by marrieds - Arcade Fire with Brown's Irish roots shining through. Brown was in the band Airspace, who blew me away opening for another band (and I can't remember who) at Visulite a few years ago.

Matrimony has toured the US and Brown's native Ireland. You can check out its latest single here.
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13 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 2, 2012 at 5:30 PM

    do something about the hair

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 2, 2012 at 5:33 PM

    do something about your comments

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 2, 2012 at 5:42 PM

    Great news. Best of luck to them.

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 2, 2012 at 6:30 PM

    Is it just me or do they look unusually tall and thin?

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  5. sueJanuary 2, 2012 at 7:57 PM

    So happy to see the success of one of my past students, Ashlee...Congrats! Mrs. E @ UFCA

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 2, 2012 at 8:13 PM

    ROCK IT!!

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 2, 2012 at 8:26 PM

    i like that they all wear sunglasses.

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  8. AnonymousJanuary 2, 2012 at 10:43 PM

    Wow! I remember seeing these two at open mic night at The Gin Mill. Really great people, and I thoroughly enjoy their music. I knew that they would have a bright future ever since I saw them and bought their first EP.

    Check out the music video for the single they mentioned above, filmed in Charlotte (much of it a couple blocks from my house!):

    http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DTxJRjkRuafg&v=TxJRjkRuafg&gl=US

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  9. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2012 at 1:07 AM

    If I submitted "Charlotte bands signs with major label" as the headine for an article in my school paper the editor would tell me to learn some English. But I guess the standards for the Observer are not that high.....nice proofreading you amateur hacks.

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  10. Courtney DevoresJanuary 3, 2012 at 2:04 AM

    In reply to Anonymous 1:07 AM - Fixed.

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  11. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2012 at 8:24 AM

    These dorks like as ghey as the Avett Brothers. 'Nuther safe, pretentious coffee house act for John Hancock to swoon over on WBT.

    Slayer! \m/ \m/

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  12. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2012 at 8:30 AM

    Nobody makes money with major label contracts anymore. This isn't the 1970s or 1980s. Everyone distributes their stuff themselves via iTunes.

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  13. AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 12:28 AM

    Ah yeah....you'd turn down Columbia and stick with iTunes and youtube, no doubt.

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